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The behaviour of sentiment-induced share returns: measurement when fundamentals are observable

Subject

Finance

Publishing details

Portfolio Construction, Measurement, and Efficiency: Essays in Honor of Jack Treynor, pp 291-313. Springer International Publishing, 2016

Authors / Editors

Brealey R;Cooper I;Kaplanis E

Biographies

Ian Cooper Richard Brealey

Publication Year

2016

Abstract

We test the effect of sentiment on returns using a sample of upstream oil stocks where we have a good proxy for fundamental value. For this sample, the influence of sentiment is highly time-varying, appearing only after the post-2000 increased interest in oil-related assets. Contrary to the hard-to-arbitrage hypothesis, sentiment affects returns on these stocks principally through their fundamentals rather than through deviations from fundamentals. Retail investor sentiment predicts short-term momentum of fundamentals and Baker-Wurgler sentiment predicts mean reversion of fundamental factors. These effects appear in a portfolio that is long hard-to-arbitrage stocks and short easy-to-arbitrage stocks, but only because this portfolio has net exposure to fundamentals.

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